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Example sentences for "would endeavour"

  • Curry, whose subterfuges and evasions are never-ending, ask him if he would endeavour to effect an amicable arrangement.

  • He had told the dean that should Mr Thumble come, he would endeavour to learn something even from him.

  • I complained of this to the chiefs who were on board and they promised that they would endeavour to recover it; but an article so valuable as this was to the natives I had no great expectation of seeing restored.

  • That must be his line in life now, and to that line he would endeavour to be true.

  • He would endeavour to supply her place with Alexandrina, because his outer world had seemed to him too harsh to be supported.

  • He would have a comfortable arm-chair, and if Alexandrina should become a mother he would endeavour to love his children; but above all things he would never think of Lily.

  • He would endeavour to bear himself well, but he could not but remember that he had been beaten.

  • Beamingham Little Wood belonged to the estate, and, as it contained about thirty acres, Ralph determined that he would endeavour to have a fox there.

  • At the extreme, he said, the amount which they would be required to pay would be two hundred and fifty thousand taels; but this was in reality a very misleading view of the circumstance, as he would endeavour to show them.

  • What I would endeavour to inculcate, is, that our Youth cannot be too soon taught the Principles of Virtue, seeing the first Impressions which are made on the Mind are always the strongest.

  • Upon the whole, I would endeavour to establish this Maxim, That the Practice of Virtue is the most proper Method to give a Man a becoming Assurance in his Words and Actions.

  • What I would endeavour to shew in this Essay is, that there may be Methods taken, to make Learning advantageous even to the meanest Capacities.

  • If you were disposed to learn to read, I would endeavour to assist you.

  • Were I the great Mumbo Jumbo above, I would endeavour to manage matters better; but being a simple postillion, glad to earn three shillings a day, I can't be expected to do much .

  • He would endeavour to remove these in committee; in the meanwhile he could not but express his surprise that Lord Melbourne should have again brought forward such a measure.

  • What he said was, that he approved of the constitution of parliament; and if he were to invent a constitution for parliament over again, he would endeavour to frame one like it, in which property should preponderate.

  • Then I resolved that I would endeavour to do something which should make me equal to this gentleman of many talents.

  • Then, if I were you, I would endeavour to become imperfectly well; a little imperfection in that direction might make you appear to more advantage.

  • He resolved to form some such scheme and give it a fair trial in his own parish, when, if successful, he would endeavour to get it introduced elsewhere.

  • He would endeavour to deal with all the questions of interest allowed, surplus money, responsibility of trustees, and to make the necessary restrictions towards carrying on the banks safely.

  • You know my mother is rigid in her notions of virtue; and I was determined to shew her that I would endeavour to imitate her.

  • I believe he would endeavour to work on me, as he knows the attempt would be vain in regard to her.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would endeavour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good heart; taking possession; would begin; would break; would bring; would call; would consider; would follow; would form; would have been hard; would just; would laugh; would necessarily; would pass; would perhaps; would remark; would return; would scarcely; would serve; would sooner; would stop; would succeed; would teach; would tell; would turn; would want